From: Mirko Geffken <mirko AT seitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Detecting mouse double click.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 18:59:30 +0200
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Gregary J Boyles wrote:
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> When a program containing the above loop is run and the mouse button is
> double clicked the program sometimes hangs. I can easily show that it is
> not stuck in any of my loops.
Hello,

I would be surprised if is possible to get double klicks with this
routine if done by human beeings, because you fetch the button press
event and afterwards wait for a button press again. There is no waiting
for a button release in between. If the double klick isn't done within
a few [nm]s the routine will return a double klick on every mouse klick.
(Which of course is no reason for hang ups)

> 
> Does polling the mouse continually in quick succession cause any known
> problems with mouse drivers?
I do continuous polling on my mouse driver and it is no problem for me,
but it could be driver dependend.

Hope this helps

Mirko